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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (453262)2/2/2009 3:51:54 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 1574681
 
Driving Mr. Daschle
Tax avoidance and Democratic Party standards
FEBRUARY 2, 2009, 9:33 A.M. ET

So Tom Daschle, the erstwhile prairie populist and scourge of multiple Presidential nominees, failed to disclose and pay taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars of income. He also waited months to pay up and told the Obama transition team about his tax oversights only days before his Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.

This one is going to be fascinating to watch, less for what it says about Mr. Daschle than what it will reveal about Democratic standards. Every Republican in America knows that if Mr. Daschle were a Reagan or Bush nominee he'd now be headed back to private life faster than you can say John Tower. That's the way Democrats have treated GOP nominees who were accused of far lesser transgressions than Mr. Daschle's tax, er, avoidance. The question is whether Democrats are going to treat Mr. Daschle according to the standard that Mr. Daschle set when he was running the Senate.

And what standard was that? Well, on taxes, you may recall that Mr. Daschle's Senate Democrats led the campaign against ...

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (453262)2/2/2009 7:21:24 PM
From: steve harris  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574681
 
I see Holder's only qualification is his skin color. Of course in today's environment that is good enough.

Who wants the liberal media to label you a racist for voting against a man because he is not qualified?



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (453262)2/4/2009 12:18:16 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1574681
 
>No wonder Geithner and Daschle get a pass on their tax troubles.

Did Daschle get a pass?

-Z